Concrete & Cedar
How Greater Vancouver is built — and where it stays wild.
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Lighthouse Park
Nature corner The other half of this paper: places in the region that are still wild. West Vancouver · Point Atkinson Lighthouse Park: the forest that exists because a lighthouse needed darkness Lighthouse Park is 75 hectares of mostly virgin coastal rainforest at Point Atkinson, where Burrard Inlet meets Howe Sound — old-growth Douglas fir,…
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Vancouver House
Building of the week One building, and why it matters. Vancouver · Beach Avenue Vancouver House: a tower that twists out of a traffic island At the foot of the Granville Bridge, where the off-ramps leave a triangle of land most cities would pave over, stands the 49-storey Vancouver House. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group…
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The week in development
Short items from rezoning applications, council decisions and project updates across Metro Vancouver. Region-wide The pipeline is rental now A development tracker updated October 26 counts 58 rezoning applications across Metro Vancouver proposing 25,465 homes. In its latest update, five projects were added — 1,615 homes — and not one of them is for sale:…
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A college becomes a developer
Vol. 1, No. 1 — 2 November 2026 · Cover story · Broadway Corridor, Vancouver A college becomes a developer Vancouver Community College plans to rebuild its Broadway campus, add a second teaching building — and surround it all with seven residential towers. The city is now writing the planning rules for the site, and…
